This item was brought to my attention by Biased BBC reader Lawrence; The BBC stands accused of overstaffing as protestors pull out of Dale Farm;
While the number of activists dwindled, the BBC still had six satellite crews, a handful of local correspondents and a team of documentary makers on the six acre site. They even had their own caravan within the compound to provide accommodation and refreshment for the 30 or so staff working on the story.
Yesterday Don Foster, Liberal Democrats culture spokesman, said: “That is ludicrous over staffing and hardly good way to get public sympathy for the 20 per cent budget cuts facing the BBC.”
The BBC’s renting of the caravan even led to some light ribbing from their rivals at ITV, who boasted they were making do with a tent. Damon Green, the ITV News Correspondent, tweeted: “We have a tent, the BBC have a caravan at DaleFarm. Delivering Quality First“.
Yes, but the REASON the BBC felt inclined to have so MANY people there is that it was clearly on the side of the law-breakers, those “travellers” determined to remain static.
Why can’t the beeboids make do with a flask and some butties? The problem with the BBC is they live in a past age, when it was ‘Auntie’ that age has long gone.
The BBC is now a festering left wing shit hole populated with dross.
You could save millions, Sky and ITV manage to report just as well if not better from these sites than the BBC and they do it on a fraction of the budget.
The answer, dear martin, is a thing called “expenses”.
I want to know who the BBC rented the caravan from. The travellers maybe? But of course it will be classified under information relating to journalism.
You just have to look at these photographs in The Sun to know the type of people the BBC say are “protesters”. These are hard core anarchists. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the “travellers”. Yet you never hear about them on the BBC.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3883402/The-battle-for-Dale-Farm.html
The BBCs tactic
1. Take an emotive story
2. Blow it up out of all proportion
3. Keep plugging away until every nutcase has been informed
4. Sit back and watch the fire burn
5. Flood the area with BBC “reporters” (making sure that no anarchist in full terrorist kit is filmed)
6. Report on injustice and police “heavy handed” tactics
7. Find a new case
Reckon that the BBC will itself be seeking minority status!
If we try to close it , I am sure that they will try for Brussels…they are an endangered and vulnerable sector of the Broadcasting Community and need more state funding and less nasty types like Murdoch to endanger their rights to free expression.
Might even win if they cite “special needs” or “mental health” as mitigating factors…hence all the head banging and drooling about global warming and the cutz.
Aspergers or autistic…OCD or delusional?…all depends how the moon is or what time of day it is.
Permanent PMT on Womans Hour for one thing!
Areport in the local news twodays started (I now have to paraphrase)
Tazers were met with bricks and bottles .
And all along there has been this “…but its costs x millions so far…” sometimes put to the leader of Basildon council as though the council and the council alone have been wasting money .
Then there was xxxxx couldn`t contain her anger as they moved in on her home .
Well she could if she wanted to . actually its a sign of criminality when people show anger when they`ve been fustrated by the norms of society .
The local newswoman has been speaking to the crimin..sorry travellers in such mournful sympathetic tones that I want to break into her house to be given such tea and sympathy .
Incidentally , has there ever been a case in history where people have moved from one country to the next and settled as these dregs.. sorry travellers have done seemingly with the aim of being “oppressed” ?Did the victim groups suffering under the likes of Hitler , Stalin etc even consider that they could use their children as moral blackmail as is being done here ?
Would you be make yourself as ready for flight as you could against evil regimes or encase your limbs in concrete ?
Or perhaps these anti soci…sorry travellers knew the British establishment is as soft as sh*t on a rainy day to the likes of them and the BBC would mournfully report on their “plight “
The latest bBC report from Dale Farm exemplifies just how biased the so called impartial News service of the UK has become:
“Bailiffs will continue demolishing properties at the Dale Farm travellers’ site later after residents and their supporters staged a mass walkout.”
Properties bBC? It’s green belt land next to a travellers site which means each and every building is illegally built, be it Green Belt or Travellers Site as the excuse used to knock them down.
Mass walkout bBC? You mean they realised that the game was up and that playing the race game no longer counted.
One resident, Mary Sheridan, said the mass walkout was intended to show their appreciation for the support they had received.”We’re leaving together as one family, and we are proud of that – you can’t take away our dignity,” she said.
Appreciation for the support they received? You mean using violence in which to remain on illegally stolen land for people who aren’t native to the land , who live by dubious means and who all claim benefit while owning property in Ireland. And the bBC feels that is enough to promote the dignity angle.
But what really takes the biscuit is how the bBC ends its piece on the hardships faced by thieving Irish gipsy fatherless people:
“A number of legal observers remain on site to ensure bailiffs employed by Basildon Council comply with the law.”
You mean like the so called travellers who built homes (Yes homes) on Green Belt land.
Priceless.
*Dez/Scott low hanging fruit alert*
I think the “static travellers” bought the land in question.
Oddly, across a whole raft of issues, the cherry vultures seem to have remained bunker bound. I think there was one who mentioned the war (actually tried to get himself Godwinned, which was quaint), but didn’t get away with it and retired embarassed.
BBc Campfire?
http://twitter.com/#!/TonyNewsCamera
‘Views are my own, not those of the BBC.’
Nah, Tony, by an amazing coincidence your views are also those of the BBC.
Get out more.
The Anti-Cuts Occupy St Pauls Youth Action on Climate Change End World Poverty Now Coalition has left Dale Farm, followed by the BBC Soup Kitchen. What an utter waste of space, the lot of them.
“Council igloos? It’s their culture, innit!”
By Richard Littlejohn
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2051560/Richard-Littlejohn-Dale-Farm-eviction-Council-igloos-Its-culture-innit.html#ixzz1bReO0nQk
Meanwhile:
BBC boss tells staff facing cuts to ‘grow up’
The BBC’s director of news has angered regional journalists complaining about budget cuts by telling them to “grow up”.
Helen Boaden also told staff from a current affairs programme, taking part in a question and answer session over the cost-cutting proposals: “We could have killed you off.”
The corporation has announced plans for a “smaller” BBC which will see it lose thousands of jobs, sell off offices and show more repeats.
The changes, expected to lead to savings of £670 million a year, were announced after the licence fee was frozen at £145.50 for six years.
Bosses have been holding a series of meetings with staff across the UK to reveal details of the cuts programme, known as “Delivering Quality First”.
Staff at BBC1’s regional current affairs programme, Inside Out, used a telephone question and answer session last week to complain to Ms Boaden about the cuts.
They suggested that the expected 40 job losses and the 40% cut to the programme’s £5 million budget were disproportionate.
But, according to the Guardian website, the £340,000-a-year executive was said to have told them: “I think we all need to grow up”.
She is said to have added: “I don’t mean to sound patronising.”
Later in the meeting, speaking about initial proposals there had been to axe the programme altogether Ms Boaden said: “We could have killed you off.”
A source told the Guardian: “People were shocked and angry that you have got a very senior manager talking to staff like this at a time when people are facing redundancy.
One wonders if these Beeboids were equally outraged at the amount of staff employed to cover the darling Travellers’ story.